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E. Andre, in the Revue Horlicole, speaks very highly of this ornamental and 
useful tree. He says :— 
The ripe fruit, however, is more particularly interesting. Usually one of the two ovules is abortive, 
and the surviving one tills the whole of the interior of the shell with its white, firm, close-grained albumen, 
forming a kernel which is as crisp as that of a hazel nut, but has a higher aroma, and a finer flavour. We 
have gathered and eaten these nuts in the month of December. Macadamia ternifolia is a tree which 
should be cultivated, both from an ornamental and economic point of view. Even if it yielded no fruit, it 
would make a fine appearance in gardens in the south of France, where the specimens already planted have 
passed uninjured through winters as severe as that of 1890-91, but how greatly enhanced would be the 
interest and importance attaching to this species if we could look forward to the discovery of some feasible 
mode of inducing the trees to yield a regular supply of their pleasantly-flavoured nuts. 
Timber. —Wood firm, fine-grained, and ornamental, as all Proteaceous 
timbers are, and takes a good polish. It is of a reddish colour, and is stated to he 
occasionally used for staves, cabinet-work, veneers, shingles, and bullock-yokes. It 
seems a jfity to use our best nut trees for any such purpose. 
Exudation. — I have seen a small quantity of exudation from a log of 
this tree. 
Size. —Rarely more than 30 feet high, with a stem diameter of 8 inches. 
Eorms a fine bushy tree under cultivation. 
Habitat. —Found in most of the brush country on the Tweed and Richmond 
Rivers, N.S.W. It comes as far south as near Camden Haven, which I believe is 
the most southern limit. The Queensland localities given in the Flora Australiensis 
are Pine River and Moreton Bay (W. Hill); Dawson and Burnett Rivers (Leichhardt); 
with the leaves less toothed, and the flowers rather larger. 
; EXPLANATION OF PLATE 40. 
A. Perianth, opened out. 
b. Sessile ovary, with long straight style, clavate at the end. 
a. Hypogynous glands united in a ring round the ovary. 
c. Anther. 
d. Fruit, showing exocarp and putamen. 
E. Vertical section showing two fleshy cotyledons. 
f. Leaves of variety integrifolia. 
Sydney : William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer.— 1904. 
